"answers. Web page designers often label a single list of questions as an ""FAQ"", such as on Google.com, while using ""FAQs"" to denote multiple lists of questions such as on United States Treasury sites. While the name may be recent, the FAQ format itself is quite old. For example, Matthew Hopkins wrote ""The Discovery of Witches"" in 1647 as a list of questions and answers, introduced as ""Certain Queries answered"". Many old catechisms are in a question-and-answer (Q&A) format. ""Summa Theologica"", written by Thomas Aquinas in the second half of the 13th century, is a series of common questions about"
"Q (number format) Q is a fixed point number format where the number of fractional bits (and optionally the number of integer bits) is specified. For example, a Q15 number has 15 fractional bits; a Q1.14 number has 1 integer bit and 14 fractional bits. Q format is often used in hardware that does not have a floating-point unit and in applications that require constant resolution. Q format numbers are notionally fixed point numbers, that is, they are stored and operated upon as regular binary signed integers, thus allowing standard integer hardware/ALU to perform rational number calculations. The number of"
"Q code The Q code is a standardized collection of three-letter codes all of which start with the letter ""Q"". It is an operating signal initially developed for commercial radiotelegraph communication and later adopted by other radio services, especially amateur radio. To distinguish the use of ""Q"" codes transmitted as questions from those transmitted as statements, operators used the Morse question ""INT"" (dit dit dah dit dah) as a prefix to the ""Q"" code. Although Q codes were created when radio used Morse code exclusively, they continued to be employed after the introduction of voice transmissions. To avoid confusion, transmitter"
"Q clearance Q clearance or Q access authorization is the Department of Energy (DOE) security clearance required to access Top Secret Restricted Data, Formerly Restricted Data, and National Security Information, as well as Secret Restricted Data. Restricted Data (RD) is defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and covers nuclear weapons and related materials. The lower-level L clearance is sufficient for access to Secret Formerly Restricted Data (FRD) and National Security Information, as well as Confidential Restricted Data, Formerly Restricted Data, and National Security Information. Access to Restricted Data is only granted on a need-to-know basis to personnel with"
"call signs are restricted; no country is ever issued an ITU prefix starting with ""Q"". Codes in the range QAA–QNZ are reserved for aeronautical use; QOA–QQZ for maritime use and QRA–QUZ for all services. ""Q"" has no official meaning, but it is sometimes assigned with a word with mnemonic value, such as ""Queen's"" (e.g. QFE = Queen's Field Elevation), ""Query"", ""Question"", or ""reQuest"". The original Q codes were created, ""circa"" 1909, by the British government as a ""list of abbreviations... prepared for the use of British ships and coast stations licensed by the Postmaster General"". The Q codes facilitated communication"
"used by physicists and engineers to describe how damped an oscillator is. Important examples include: the damping ratio, relative bandwidth, linewidth and bandwidth measured in octaves. The concept of ""Q"" originated with K. S. Johnson of Western Electric Company's Engineering Department while evaluating the quality of coils (inductors). His choice of the symbol ""Q"" was only because, at the time, all other letters of the alphabet were taken. The term was not intended as an abbreviation for ""quality"" or ""quality factor"", although these terms have grown to be associated with it. There are many definitions of Q for the days"
"Q Q (named ""cue"" ) is the 17th letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. In nearly all languages using the Latin script it is a consonant, not a vowel. The Semitic sound value of Qôp was (voiceless uvular stop), and the form of the letter could have been based on the eye of a needle, a knot, or even a monkey with its tail hanging down. is a sound common to Semitic languages, but not found in many European languages. Some have even suggested that the form of the letter Q is even more"
"show to show. ""QI"" has a philosophy that ""everything is interesting if looked at in the right way""; many factual errors in the show have been corrected in later episodes or on the show's blog. For its first five series shown between 2003 and 2007, which corresponded to the first five letters of the alphabet, episodes premiered on BBC Four before receiving their first analogue airing on BBC Two a week later. From 2008 and 2011, the show was moved to BBC One, with an extended-length edition of each episode often broadcast on BBC Two a day or two after"
"Q to indicate an unsigned value, such as UQ1.15, indicating values from 0.0 to +1.99997. Signed Q values are stored in two's complement format, just like signed integer values on most processors. In two's complement, the sign bit is extended to the register size. For a given Q""m"".""n"" format, using an ""m""+""n"" bit signed integer container with ""n"" fractional bits: For a given UQ""m"".""n"" format, using an ""m""+""n"" bit unsigned integer container with ""n"" fractional bits: For example, a Q15.1 format number: Unlike floating point numbers, the resolution of Q numbers will remain constant over the entire range. To convert"
"in Chinese is a diminutive prefix for names. ""Q"" is short for ""Quei"", which would today be romanized in Hanyu Pinyin as ""Guì."" However, as there are many Chinese characters that are pronounced ""quei"", the narrator claims he does not know which character he should use, and therefore shortens it to ""Q"". The deliberate use of a Western letter instead of a Chinese character is a reference to the concepts of the May Fourth movement, which advocated adoption of Western ideas. Mao Dun believed that ""Ah Q"" represented a ""crystallization of Chinese qualities"" and that it was not necessarily a"
"Q, read ""Q bar"" or ""Q not"", represents an active-low signal. The conventions commonly used are: Many control signals in electronics are active-low signals (usually reset lines, chip-select lines and so on). Logic families such as TTL can sink more current than they can source, so fanout and noise immunity increase. It also allows for wired-OR logic if the logic gates are open-collector/open-drain with a pull-up resistor. Examples of this are the I²C bus and the Controller Area Network (CAN),and the PCI Local Bus. RS232 signaling, as used on some serial ports, uses active-low signals. Some signals have a meaning"
"Quality of experience Quality of Experience (QoE, less frequently QoX or QX) is a measure of the delight or annoyance of a customer's experiences with a service (e.g., web browsing, phone call, TV broadcast). QoE focuses on the entire service experience; it is a holistic concept, similar to the field of User Experience, but with its roots in telecommunication. QoE is an emerging multidisciplinary field based on social psychology, cognitive science, economics, and engineering science, focused on understanding overall human quality requirements. In 2013, within the context of the COST Action ""QUALINET"", QoE has been defined as:The degree of delight"
"Q (magazine) Q is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1986 by the journalists and broadcasters Mark Ellen and David Hepworth, who were presenters of the BBC television music series ""Whistle Test"". ""Q"" was originally published by the EMAP media group and set itself apart from much of the other music press with monthly production and higher standards of photography and printing. In the early years, the magazine was sub-titled ""The modern guide to music and more"". Originally it was to be called ""Cue"" (as in the sense of cueing a record,"
"typeset the long-tailed Q when it is called for and the short-tailed Q when not. Owing to the allowable variation in the Q, the letter is a very distinctive feature of a typeface; like the ampersand, the Q is cited as a letter that gives typographers a chance to express themselves. Identifont, an automated typeface identification service that identifies typefaces by questions about their appearance, asks about the Q tail second if the ""sans-serif"" option is chosen. Out of Identifont's database, Q tails are divided thus: Some typographers prefer one ""Q"" design over another: Adrian Frutiger, famous for the airport"
"Q with hook tail Q with hook tail (uppercase: Ɋ, lowercase: ɋ) is a letter of the extended Latin alphabet, based on the letter Q. It was introduced by Lutheran missionaries in Papua New Guinea for use in the Numanggang language in the 1930s or 1940s. In 2002, it was decided to discontinue using Q with hook tail. It is still used in the Kâte language to represent a voiced labial-velar plosive. In some forms of handwriting for English (and presumably other languages based on the Latin alphabet), lowercase q ""always"" has a hook tail. This is particularly evident in"
"Q (software) Q is a computer software package for molecular dynamics (MD) simulation (current release: Q6). Unlike other MD codes, it has specialized since its conception (Marelius et al. 1998) on three specific types of free energy calculations. These calculations are based on the methods: ""empirical valence bond"" (EVB), ""free energy perturbation"" (FEP), and ""linear interaction energy"" (LIE), as well as, more recently, also path integral calculations using the bisection quantum classical path (BQCP) approach. The methods in which the program specializes can return quantitative calculations of the energy balance which occurs in proteins and nucleic acids. It can provide"
"Question answering Question answering (QA) is a computer science discipline within the fields of information retrieval and natural language processing (NLP), which is concerned with building systems that automatically answer questions posed by humans in a natural language. A QA implementation, usually a computer program, may construct its answers by querying a structured database of knowledge or information, usually a knowledge base. More commonly, QA systems can pull answers from an unstructured collection of natural language documents. Some examples of natural language document collections used for QA systems include: QA research attempts to deal with a wide range of question"
"mean ""safety"" or ""pay attention"". It is still used in this sense in international telecommunications. The letters CQ, when pronounced in French, resemble the first two syllables of ', and were therefore used as shorthand for the word. It sounds also like the French ""c'est qui?"" which in English means ""who's there?"". In English-speaking countries, the origin of the abbreviation was popularly changed to the phrase ""seek you"" or, later, when used in the CQD distress call, ""Calling all distress"". CQ was adopted by the Marconi Company in 1904 for use in wireless (spark) telegraphy, and was adopted internationally at"
"Q factor In physics and engineering the quality factor or ""Q"" factor is a dimensionless parameter that describes how underdamped an oscillator or resonator is, and characterizes a resonator's bandwidth relative to its centre frequency. Higher ""Q"" indicates a lower rate of energy loss relative to the stored energy of the resonator; the oscillations die out more slowly. A pendulum suspended from a high-quality bearing, oscillating in air, has a high ""Q"", while a pendulum immersed in oil has a low one. Resonators with high quality factors have low damping, so that they ring or vibrate longer. Q factor is"
"Cadit quaestio As a mark in copy editing, ""cq"" implies that the accuracy of a statement, fact, etc., has been verified. It is usually placed in a draft article by the writer, to the attention of the copy editor. The precise origin of the term is uncertain, but 'cq' was identified as the shorthand form of ""correct"" in the 1879 Phillips Code, a set of abbreviations used in the transmission of press reports via telegraph, first published in 1879. Alternate explanations of the origin include an abbreviation for ""cadit quaestio"", indicating that the issue is ""no longer in question"", and"
"""1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off"", a list of facts, was published on 1 November 2012. James Harkin, ""QI""s chief researcher, co-wrote the book with Lloyd and Mitchinson. ""QI""s first annual, The QI """"E"""" Annual or The QI Annual 2008 was published by Faber and Faber on 1 November 2007, to coincide with the initial airing of the TV show's E series (.) Succeeding years have seen the publication of ""F"", ""G"" and ""H"" annuals, concurrent with the BBC show's chronology, though retrospective annuals on the first four letters of the alphabet have yet to be published. The"
"Q (James Bond) Q is a fictional character in the James Bond films and film novelisations. Q (standing for Quartermaster as well as a reference to the deceptive Q-ships) is a job title, unlike M, which is a cypher for the character's name. He is the head of Q Branch (or later Q Division), the fictional research and development division of the British Secret Service. Q has appeared in 21 of the 24 Eon Productions James Bond films, the exceptions being ""Live and Let Die"", the 2006 ""Casino Royale"" and ""Quantum of Solace"". The character was also featured in both"
"Q (game engine) Q is a 3D engine / tech development platform / interoperability standard developed by the London-based developer Qube Software. Qube has made considerable claims for Q. Its lead designers, Servan Keondjian and Doug Rabson, have pointed to Q’s architecture as being its key innovation. Q is configured as a framework into which all the supplied components plug in modular form. The framework’s common APIs are designed to make adding and removing components a trivial task and one that can be done neatly. The key idea is that this makes it simple for studios licensing the platform to"
"(UQ) is concept in contact center design whereby multiple communications channels (such as telephone, fax and email) are integrated into a single 'universal queue' to standardize processing and handling, enabling coherent customer relations management (CRM). The immediate benefits of UQ include standardised routing, recording, handling, reporting, and management of all communications in a contact center (or across an entire organisation). These benefits may create others, such as increased sales, reduced overheads, cost savings and an improvement in relationships with customers and suppliers. Although UQ was discussed at least as far back as 2004, the difficulties in implementing such a system"
"meaning request repeat, α meaning constant space condition, which may indicate the end of a connection (break signal) or be used to signal information, such as a number to connect to, and the β character, meaning constant mark condition, used when there is nothing to send. The RQ signal is also called Signal Roman one and may be designated ""I"". The number of one bits is checked by the receiver to tell if an error has occurred in the transmission of the character. There should be three ones in each character received. The return channel will include the RQ signal"
": Guide the process into which queue he should to go and wait which means that the process is waiting for a device. Ready Q : The process which done and is waiting for running on his second round and the process can jump between queues. Device Q : Anything related between Input and Output. Job queue In system software, a job queue (sometimes batch queue), is a data structure maintained by job scheduler software containing jobs to run. Users submit their programs that they want executed, ""jobs"", to the queue for batch processing. The scheduler software maintains the queue"
"Quoted-printable Quoted-Printable, or QP encoding, is an encoding using printable ASCII characters (alphanumeric and the equals sign codice_1) to transmit 8-bit data over a 7-bit data path or, generally, over a medium which is not 8-bit clean. It is defined as a MIME content transfer encoding for use in e-mail. QP works by using the equals sign codice_1 as an escape character. It also limits line length to 76, as some software has limits on line length. MIME defines mechanisms for sending other kinds of information in e-mail, including text in languages other than English, using character encodings other than"
"Q-learning ""Q""-learning is a reinforcement learning technique used in machine learning. The goal of Q-learning is to learn a policy, which tells an agent what action to take under what circumstances. It does not require a model of the environment and can handle problems with stochastic transitions and rewards, without requiring adaptations. For any finite Markov decision process (FMDP), ""Q""-learning finds a policy that is optimal in the sense that it maximizes the expected value of the total reward over all successive steps, starting from the current state. ""Q""-learning can identify an optimal action-selection policy for any given FMDP, given"
"in question, and sometimes not. This shortcut character is the character produced when one types just the letter and nothing else; these are all extremely common characters used when typing Chinese. ""It is entirely possible that there are a number of components not listed below, either because of oversight, because they are rarely used, or because no simple Unicode representation for the component exists."" The Q key's main component is 金 and its shortcut character is 我. It is associated with the following components: 金, 钅, 勹, 儿, 夕, as well as the hook at the top of 饣 and"
"Q (programming language from Kx Systems) Q is a programming language for array processing, developed by Arthur Whitney. It is proprietary software, commercialized by Kx Systems. Q serves as the query language for kdb+, a disk based and in-memory, column-based database. kdb+ is based on the language K, a terse variant of the language APL. Q is a thin wrapper around K, providing a more readable, English-like interface. The fundamental building blocks of Q are ""atoms"", ""lists"", and ""functions"". Atoms are scalars and include the data types numeric, character, date, and time. Lists are ordered collections of atoms (or other"
"Q Score The Q Score (popularly known as Q-Rating) is a measurement of the familiarity and appeal of a brand, celebrity, company, or entertainment product (e.g., television show) used in the United States. The higher the Q Score, the more highly regarded the item or person is, among those who are aware of the subject. Q Scores and other variants are primarily used by the advertising, marketing, media, and public relations industries. The Q Score is a metric that determines a ""quotient"" (""Q"") factor through mail and online panelists who make up representative samples of the population. The score identifies"
"""Q"" factor or ""quality factor"" is a dimensionless parameter that describes how under-damped an oscillator or resonator is, or equivalently, characterizes a resonator's bandwidth relative to its center frequency. Higher ""Q"" indicates a lower rate of energy loss relative to the stored energy of the oscillator, i.e., the oscillations die out more slowly. A pendulum suspended from a high-quality bearing, oscillating in air, has a high ""Q"", while a pendulum immersed in oil has a low ""Q"". To sustain a system in resonance in constant amplitude by providing power externally, the energy provided in each cycle must be less than"
"with middleware in the game industry, and I wanted to really understand that problem and see if we could crack it. That was the mission."" Q 1.0 was released in 2001. In effect, a prototype for the version that was to follow it was first used on the BBC’s Dinosaur World (June 2001), (Sept 2002) and projects for Microsoft and Virgin Interactive. Q 2.0 was released in February 2008. Q 2.1 was announced in July 2008 and included script debugging and new shader and scene rendering plugins. Q (game engine) Q is a 3D engine / tech development platform /"